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Walter Sisulu

1912 - 2003

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Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC). Between terms as ANC Secretary-General (1949–1954) and ANC Deputy President (1991–1994), he was Accused No.2 in the Rivonia Trial and was incarcerated on Robben Island where he served more than 25 years' imprisonment for his anti-Apartheid revolutionary activism. He had a close partnership with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, with whom he played a key role in organising the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the establishment of the ANC Youth League and Umkhonto we Sizwe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Sisulu has received more than 881,000 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Walter Sisulu is the 12,624th most popular politician (up from 12,689th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 80th in 2019) and the 26th most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Walter Sisulu ranks 12,624 out of 19,576. Before him are Giovanni II Participazio, Henry Paulson, Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Peer Steinbrück, Karl Staaff, and Balaji Vishwanath. After him are Günther Schwägermann, King Si of Zhou, Edgar Lungu, Raúl Cubas Grau, Heliocles I, and Meral Akşener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Walter Sisulu ranks 209. Before him are Barbara Hutton, Kulyash Baiseitova, Vlastimil Kopecký, Carvalho Leite, Akram al-Hawrani, and Herluf Bidstrup. After him are John Templeton, Gholam Reza Azhari, Alfred Deller, Sabiha Kasimati, Carlos Guastavino, and George Devol. Among people deceased in 2003, Walter Sisulu ranks 183. Before him are Blaga Dimitrova, Gregory Hines, Berta Ambrož, Meir Vilner, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, and Emil Loteanu. After him are Jeanne Crain, Eugenio Monti, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Pierre Poujade, and Walter Zapp.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Walter Sisulu ranks 79 out of 454. Before him are Gordon Murray (1946), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Oliver Tambo (1917), Evelyn Mase (1922), Alice Krige (1954), and Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928). After him are Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Laurens van der Post (1906), Nico Diederichs (1903), Koos de la Rey (1847), Louis Raymond (1895), and Piet Retief (1780).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Walter Sisulu ranks 26. Before him are Piet Joubert (1834), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928). After him are Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Nico Diederichs (1903), Helen Suzman (1917), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Eben Dönges (1898), and Chris Hani (1942).

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